Title :
A study on ECC for servo track identifiers
Author :
Subrahmanyam, J.N. ; Chue, J.M.
Author_Institution :
Western Digital Corp., San Jose, CA, USA
fDate :
March 30 2003-April 3 2003
Abstract :
In this paper, we propose a method to characterize head instabilities and propose the use of Gray Hamming, Golay, and Reed Solomon(RS) codes to deal with Track ID errors in the servo sector during write and read operations.
Keywords :
Golay codes; Gray codes; Hamming codes; Reed-Solomon codes; disc drives; error correction codes; magnetic heads; servomechanisms; ECC; Golay codes; Gray Hamming codes; Reed-Solomon codes; head instabilities; servo sector; servo track identifiers; track ID errors; Delay effects; Disk drives; Error correction codes; Histograms; Large Hadron Collider; Levee; Reflective binary codes; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Servomechanisms; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Magnetics Conference, 2003. INTERMAG 2003. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7647-1
DOI :
10.1109/INTMAG.2003.1230530
